In 1977 I moved to the Washington, D.C. area and began contributing photographs to JazzTimes magazine. I focus on capturing the creative expression and individualistic character of the artists in performance portraits. My pictures have also been published regularly in other jazz magazines, journals, and newspapers including:

Signal to Noise Jazziz N.Y. Times Magazine U.S. News and World Report Jazz Beat The Jazz Report Musician Magazine American Visions America Illustrated

The Wire The Ear The Jazz News Washington Post Washington Times Washington City Paper San Francisco Chronicle Chicago Tribune Savannah News-Press, etc.

Books in which my photos appear:

—The Jazz Scene, W. Royal Stokes, 1991, Oxford Univ. Press —Dizzy: John Birks Gillespie in His 75th Year, compiled & ed. by Lee Tanner, 1993, Pomegranate Art Books —The Art of Bop Drumming, John Riley, 1994, Manhattan Music —The Real Latin Fakebook, 1996, Sher Music —Jazz Man's Journey, Biography of Ellis Marsalis, D. Antionette Handy, 1999, Scarecrow Press —Living the Jazz Life, W. Royal Stokes, 2000, Oxford Univ. Press —Filtreringer: Elekktronisk Music Fra Tonegeneratorer Til Samplere 1898-2001, Henrik Marstal & Henriette Moos, 2001, Host & Sons —Visions, Annual Publication in Celebration of the Vision Festival, 2001, Arts for Art, Inc. —Latin Jazz-La Combinacion Perfecta, Raul Fernandez, 2002, Chronicle Books —Encyclopedia of Cuba - People, History, Culture, Luis Martinez-Fernandez, D.H. Figueredo, L. Perez & L. Gonzalez, 2003, Greenwood Press —Four Lives, A.B. Spellman, 2004, University of Michigan Press (reprint of Four Lives In The Bebop Business) —Jazz: An American Journey, Brian Harker, 2005, Pearson Prentice Hall —Vision Festival - Peace, Vision Festival Publication, 2005, Arts For Art —The Velvet Lounge: On Late Chicago Jazz, Gerald Majer, 2005, Columbia University Press —DIZZY - The Life & Times of John Birks Gillespie, Donald L. Maggin, 2005, Harper Collins —Growing Up With Jazz, W. Royal Stokes, 2005, Oxford Univ. Press —Steve Lacy: Conversations, Jason Weiss, 2006, Duke University Press —A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and Experimental Music, George Lewis, 2008, University of Chicago Press

Compact discs, LPs, and laser discs on which photos have appeared on covers or in booklets:

Malachi Favors, Natural and the Spiritual, AECO Records LP Ahmad Jamal, Live! at Blues Alley, Blues Alley Limited Edition Stanley Turrentine, Live! at Blues Alley, Blues Alley Ramsey Lewis, Live! at Blues Alley, Blues Alley Charlie Byrd, Live! at Blues Alley, Blues Alley Dizzy Gillespie, Live! at Blues Alley, Blues Alley Dizzy Gillespie, Wolf Trap Salutes Dizzy Gillespie, Pioneer laser disc Malachi Thompson, Jaz Life, Delmark Von Regensburger/Waldyr Menezes, Tropical Breeze, Magnum Opus David Leonhardt, Departure, Big Bang Records Woody Shaw, Complete CBS Studio Recordings, Mosaic (reissue) Larry Willis, Steal Away, Audioquest Larry Willis, Solo Spirit, Mapleshade Eddie Gale, A Minute With Miles, Mapleshade Bobby Battle/David Murray, The Offering, Mapleshade Wild Bill Davison, Wild Bill & his Jazzologists, Jazzology Pud Brown, Palm Court Strut, Jazzology David "Fathead" Newman, House of David, Rhino Anthology Clifford Jordan/Ran Blake, Masters From Different Worlds, Mapleshade Raphe Malik Quintet, Sirens Sweet and Slow, Mapleshade Pud Brown, Plays Clarinet, Jazzology Byron Morris/Unity, Vibrations In Time, By-Mor Music Kendra Shank, Afterglow, Mapleshade Malachi Thompson, New Standards, Delmark Hamiet Bluiett, Young Warrior, Old Warrior, Mapleshade Dave Bargeron, Barge Burns...Slide Flies, Mapleshade Larry Willis & Hamiet Bluiett, If Trees Could Talk, Mapleshade Hamiet Bluiett, Bluiett's Barbeque Band, Mapleshade Eddie Jefferson, Deep Jazz Trip: Freedom Jazz Dance Series, pHo/Westside/ Muse Ivo Perelman, Man of the Forest, GM Recordings Wavelength Infinity, A Sun Ra Tribute, Rastascan Jack Walrath and Larry Willis, Portraits In Ivory and Brass, Mapleshade Chuck Redd, Stomp, Look and Listen, Exclusive Arts Joel Futterman-'Kidd' Jordan Trio, New Orleans Rising, Konnex Clifford Jordan, Live at Ethell's, Mapleshade John Ellis, Language Of Love, Riding Between Cars Recordings Trio Hurricane, Live at Fire In The Valley, Eremite Records Joel Futterman-'Kidd' Jordan Trio, Southern Extreme, Drimala Records Byron Morris/Unity, Live At The East Coast Jazz Festival, By-Mor Music Asante, Ohene Kesee A Ebin, Mapleshade Raphe Malik Quartet, Con Sequence, Eremite Records Glenn Spearman Trio, First and Last, Eremite Records Malcolm Goldstein, Live at Fire In The Valley, Eremite Records Alan Silva & William Parker, A Hero's Welcome: Pieces For Rare Occasions, Eremite Peter Brotzmann 'Die Like A Dog Quartet', From Valley To Valley, Eremite Records Matthew Shipp Duo with William Parker, DNA, Thirsty Ear Recordings Jemeel Moondoc/William Parker, New World Pygmies, Eremite Records Sun Ra, Janus, 1201 Music Sonny Stitt, Autumn in New York, 1201Music Cecil Taylor, Silent Tongues, 1201 Music Fred Anderson/Hamid Drake/'Kidd' Jordan/William Parker, 2 days in april, Eremite Records Alan Silva & The Sound Visions Orchestra, Eremite Records Kenyetta & Larry Willis, Every Rung Goes Higher, Mapleshade Santi Debriano & the Euforia Trio, Euforia, Mapleshade Larry Willis/Kash Killion, Sunshower, Mapleshade Sun Ra/Henry Dumas, The Ark and the Ankh, IKEF RECORDS Raphe Malik Quartet, Companions, Eremite Records Hamid Drake & Sabir Mateen, Brothers Together, Eremite Records Kim Russell Seibert with Joel Futterman &Kidd Jordan, Sweet Silence, Independent Anthony Braxton, Four Compositions (GTM) 2000, Delmark Paul Murphy Trio, Enarre, Cadence Jazz Kalaprusha and the Light, Live in Detroit, Entropy Stereo Joel Futterman/Ike Levin Trio with Kash Killion, Live At The Noe Valley Ministry, San Francisco, IML Records Kidd Jordan/Joel Futterman/Alvin Fielder Trio, Live At The Tampere Jazz Happening 2000, Charles Lester Music Cecil Taylor and Mat Maneri, Algonquin, At the Library of Congress, 1999, Bridge Records Frank Wright, The Complete ESP Disk Recordings, ESP Disk Don Cherry, Multikulti (DVD), Kultur Byard Lancaster, It's Not Up To Us, (Reissue) Water Records Duke Pearson, the phantom - featuring bobby hutcherson, (Reissue) Water Records VisionLive CD/DVD, Two discs from the 2002 Vision Festival Vision Volume 3 CD/DVD, Two discs from the 2003 Vision Festival JD Parran & Mark Deutsch, Omegathorp: Living City, Y'All of New York

Exhibitions include:

dc space, Washington, D.C., May 1982 Wetherholt Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1991 U.S. Information Agency traveling jazz exhibit, 1992 Blues Alley, Washington, D.C., 1992-1995 La Belle Gallerie, New Orleans, 1992-1994 Philadelphia Afro-American Cultural & Historical Museum, October, 1993 Southern University, New Orleans, May 1993, at dedication of Sun Ra Archive D.C. World Jazz Festival, July 1994, Warner Theatre, photos from past festivals The Knitting Factory, New York City, May 1995, exhibit of contemporary masters H.R. 57 Center for the Preservation of Jazz and Blues, March 1996, Women In Jazz H.R. 57 Center , May 1996, exhibit of Sun Ra and other contemporary masters Jazz Gallery, New York City, November-December 1996, group show on Dizzy Gillespie Jazz Gallery, New York City, August-November 1997, group show Tribute to Jazz Piano Arts In The Alley, Washington, DC, September-December1998 Martin Luther King Library, Washington, DC, Celebration: Musical Impressions, July1999, Four artists inspired by music Jazz Gallery, New York City, August-November 1999, group show Tribute to Don Pullen May 2000, Vision Festival, New York, Avantjazz Through the Eyes of Seven Photographers October 2002 opening - and continuing, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibit, Latin Jazz: La Combinación Perfecta May, 2004, Vision Festival, New York, Bassically: A Tribute To The Jazz Bass June 2005, Vision Festival, New York, Vision Festival 10th Year Retrospective September 2006, Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site, Latin Jazz: Where Africa and the Caribbean Meet, during Hispanic Heritage Month event

Miscellaneous appearances:

Dizzy Gillespie photos used as stage backdrop, 1993 Soul Train Awards Gear, Inc. licensed photos for T-shirt designs: 1994 Photo-montage of Sun Ra 1995 Charles Mingus montage 1995 Max Roach 1998 Dizzy Gillespie montage 2002 Art Blakey montage 2005 Woody Shaw T-shirt Available at the Woody Shaw website Internet web pages: SATURN: The Web Home of Sun Ra & The Arkestra William Parker's web site The Sonny Sharrock Site Steve Coleman's MBASE site David Amram's Site and MORE. Slide presentation and talk on my work - part of music/art program, Mississippi State University, Starkeville, MS, November 1997

Memberships

Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Photographers Association Jazz Gallery, NYC

My photos have been used for promotion by various musicians and groups. I work cooperatively with musicians, music venues, and concert presenters to help support the music and stimulate performances. I donate photos to not-for-profit organizations for use in their promotional materials, programs, and fund raising brochures, including:

Duke Ellington Jazz Festival District Curators Blues Alley Music Society National Public Radio WPFW-FM/Pacifica Radio Cap City Jazz Festival

Rhythm & Blues Foundation Wolf Trap Farm Park Thelonious Monk Institute Southern Arts Federation National Jazz Service Organization

I have been working with computer graphics, especially for combining my photographs and portions of my images as montages for CD covers, posters, and T-shirt designs.

I have been slowly progressing on a project to produce a book combining my photos of Charles Mingus and Rahsaan Roland Kirk with text from interviews with their musical associates, plus photographs of the musicians/associates interviewed.

I also worked for the National Park Service and participated in the planning that led to the establishment of New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park in the National Park Service system. This new park was created by Congress to preserve and interpret New Orleans jazz and living culture, and the history and development of jazz. I have been very pleased to have assisted in this significant federal recognition of jazz history and culture. I am personally interested in jazz history and the historic preservation and recognition of jazz heritage sites nationally. I have been compiling information about the widespread local private and public programs related to jazz heritage.

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